Today, more and more women in Liechtenstein are in employment and are increasingly well-educated. At the same time, the proportion of women in the national parliament has been declining since 2013. The reasons for the missing, though actually expected, effect of the new circumstances on the political participation of women can only be determined by examining equal opportunities and equal rights at the level of society as a whole, rather than merely at the political level. A closer examination of female employment in Liechtenstein reveals effects of traditionalization in employment history, gender-specific occupational choice, as well as an overall division of society into male (paid work) and female (unpaid work) sectors. Also associated with this division is an unequal valuation of the two sectors and further qualitative differences, which advantage men (who perform less unpaid work) and disadvantage women (who carry out the predominant share of unpaid work). As the increasing level of female employment did not result in an increase in the male share of unpaid work, an increase in inequality is now occurring actually between women. In the so-called “new society of servants”, some women can “afford” to be employed by externalizing unpaid work. Others have to juggle with a combination of low-paid work and unpaid work.